Caddo Gap, Arkansas
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Caddo Gap, Arkansas is a small community located in Montgomery County, Arkansas that lies between Glenwood, Arkansas and Norman, Arkansas, on the Caddo River. It is best known as the area in which explorer Hernando De Soto and his forces clashed with the Tula Native Americans, a sect of the Caddo Indian tribe. His expedition turned back east, making it as far as the Mississippi River, where Hernando De Soto died. It is contested as to whether he died of fever, or from a wound received during the fighting. There the expedition had a secret burial ceremony and sent his body into the river.
A monument to this event stands in the heart of the small community, which now has a population of less than 100.
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- The Hernando De Soto expedition described the Tula Native Americans as the fiercest they had faced during their inward journey into North America.
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